Cardiac arrests have hit the news lately. On Jan. 2, Damar Hamlin of the National Football League’s Buffalo Bills suffered an extremely rare cardiac arrest after what appeared to be a relatively mild tackle. Unresponsive on the field as the game was interrupted and eventually cancelled, Hamlin received immediate treatment and is now alert and recovering.
On Jan. 12, Lisa Marie Presley died of sudden cardiac arrest at her home. She was found unconscious by...
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
- Salvor Hardin
The latest bold endeavour by Elon Musk, known for disrupting, among other things, fintech (PayPal), space travel (SpaceX), electric vehicles (Tesla), and even tunnelling (The Boring Company), is to shake up social media with his recent acquisition of Twitter. Not one to play by anyone’s rules, he has, at times, offended socialist and capitalist, environmentalist and industrialist, human and artificial...
The headline of this article was inspired by an excellent book by Erik Larson I have just finished reading called The Myth of Artificial Intelligence – Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do. In this book, the author argues that despite all the current hype about artificial intelligence, or AI, computers will never be able to think like a human or, for that matter, any animal. He points out that the brain is...
(First published on March 1, 2021)
Part 1: The Basics
Artificial Intelligence has people fretting. High-profile disagreements among tech gurus make us wonder, anxiously, what the future will be like for ordinary people. If geniuses like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and the late Stephen Hawking cannot agree on the usefulness and the relative benefits or dangers of AI, what hope is there for us to understand or even imagine how our lives will change? Will all...
The energy transition of the 21st century – the transformation of energy sources from primarily fossil fuels to a more diverse and resilient set of energy generators – is profoundly changing humanity’s demands on the earth’s resources.
Many of today’s key resources will continue to be important in the coming decades – e.g., iron ore, sand, and gravel, lime (for cement), coal, oil, natural gas, wood and other forest products are a few. But there...
I don't believe my friends would ever describe me as humble.
I am an extrovert who rarely wears a shirt during the summer (playing beach volleyball, not like walking through the mall), and I am a fairly prolific writer.
I have written hundreds of posts on LinkedIn, many quite controversial, and have penned more articles than any other journalist for the truth/integrity-focused media platform that I launched at BIG Media with a few associates last year.
This morning,...
In an article published by BIG Media Ltd. earlier this year, Lee Hunt presented an analysis of severe COVID-19 outcomes in children based on data from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
At the time of writing, both Pfizer and Moderna were seeking approval for their mRNA COVID vaccines for children under the age of 5 years, worldwide. That request was granted for the U.S. in mid-June 2022.
Since then, publicly available data...
The political spectrum is often thought of as a linear progression with extreme views at the far right, and extreme views at the far left. Moderates on each side are closer to the middle.
However, I see it as more of a curved continuum as shown in the diagram, modulated by a key factor: fear.
In my visualization, left and right meet in two places; low fear and high fear. Where left and right overlap in...
I have read many articles claiming that costs of wind and solar generation are lower than alternatives, and that rapidly declining costs seen in the past will continue unabated in the future, reducing the cost of electricity for consumers.
Is that all true? Have the costs of generating electricity from wind and solar generation actually declined in recent years? Will they decline rapidly in the future? And will such reductions, if realized, make electricity cheaper...
Canada outperformed 10 comparable OECD nations in the first two years of its pandemic response, concludes a study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
According to Razak et al., the country’s lower numbers of detected cases, COVID-19 deaths, and excess mortalities from all causes were linked to the persistence of Canada’s social restrictions and that Canadians were better vaccinated than people in comparable “peer” nations.
The study ranked the responses from Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy,...
